• Provisional Sats test results suggest that the proportion of children reaching the expected level in reading has dropped this year to 84%, down from 86% last year and 87% in 2008. There was a bigger rise in writing - 71% of children reached the expected level, from 68% last year and girls starkly outperformed boys: 79% of girls achieved a Level 4, compared to 64% of boys. Times


• Goddard Park in Swindon is to be one of the first primary schools to take on academy status. Its head teacher is Mike Welsh, president of the National Association of Headteachers; he explains why he made the decision to apply for the new status and the implications of the change. Guardian

• The coalition government have called for a review of the role of the Children's Commissioner and of the remit of her organisation. It will be the first review of the role since it was created five years ago and will report by November. The current commissioner Maggie Atkinson has been particularly vocal on issues of youth justice; her budget allows 25p to be spent on every child in England. Guardian


• Cameron has signalled his intent to change the nature of council housing, stating that he wants to see a more flexible system, where people 'move through council housing rather than seeing it something you get for life'. Tenants would be moved to private sector properties as their incomes increased or to smaller properties when their children grew up in order to clear the backlog of five million people on waiting lists. Times


• The King's Fund think tank have called for GPs to have a greater involvement in the care of pregnant women, after finding that there is one maternal death a week due to obesity, heart disease or mental health problems. It claims that the number of indirect deaths has doubled since 1985, such as in the case of women who die as a result of seeing a midwife rather than a doctor. Guardian


• The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected the 1,054 complaints about the first UK advert on TV by an abortion advisory organisation to rule that the ad did not mention or advocate abortion. The ad, shown on Channel 4, drew the seventh highest number of complaints to the ASA of all time. BBC


• Incapacity benefits - once seen as an unofficial form of retirement for workers who lost their jobs while in their fifties - are being claimed by almost 100,000 18-24 year olds. One in five of these have been claiming for five years or more. The replacement benefit for Incapacity Benefit - Employment and Support Allowance - has brought down the number of claimants: 76% of applicants are now judged fit to work. Telegraph

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